Hey @leiboavi,
I actually started digging into this more today because I think it is important to be able to support this use case (I’m calling it “merge mode”). We may have something to test next week if you are willing to try it out.
Hi tony,
Thank you for checking this so quickly ,
Sure, when you have it ready I am willing to test it!
Avi
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Hi @leiboavi,
We released a new version that has the ability to enable merging as an advanced configuration:
One thing to keep in mind for this release is that it is not excluding placeholder files (an oversight that will be included in the next release). So if you end up wanting to convert a “Sync to odrive” folder to a “Backup to odrive” folder, you’ll want to make sure all of the files are downloaded locally (no placeholders), or remove the placeholders if you don’t want them uploaded to your backup.
We’ve released a new version that improves the merging process and well as logging and a few other things.
Hi Tony,
I tried the new backup option for few weeks , since it got released, and I really like it.
one thing that I noticed (including in the latest release) is that when I try to backup a folder that exists in my local iCloud Drive directory then the backup is just stuck and nothing happens.
Is there a way to make some sort of graphic extension (finder ext) for the backup feature also? maybe different colours?
and one last proposal - i think that a backup configuration that changes versioning is needed (how many versions to keep, disabling versioning…)
thanks
avi
Hi @leiboavi,
For the extension request, do you mean adding a check-mark to the file, similar to what we do with sync?
Versioning is something we would like to address, as well, although we don’t have it on the immediate road map right now.
For the issue with iCloud, I am going to follow-up in the other thread.
exactly check-mark to each file - maybe different colour than sync